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Who is this guy talking about?

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  1. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

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    A non-soccer sports pundit with no qualifications in psychiatry or psychology publicly stated the following a few days ago apparently about a well known former PL player. Who do you think he is talking about? You have just one guess and don't look up on the Net.

    PS: I am not saying the guy is right or wrong in his analysis.

    “It always amuses me to hear soccer players described as role models. They are nothing of the kind. _______?______ is just, you know he is interesting and for the media it is fantastic, it’s like having a soccer-coaching Kardashian.”

    ____?____ will never be a leader, he couldn’t be a military leader for example.

    “____?____brings huge interest wherever he goes but I think he will fail wherever he goes as a manager because he doesn’t have any of the emotional intelligence that is required.

    “I would imagine that he has all sorts of deep-seated psychological issues that have never been dealt with. He seems to have an addictive personality.

    As a soccer player, he was just a freelance soccer player, all he had to do was play soccer and he was brilliant at that of course and he burned so brightly. But then he reaches the age of 35 and because he has never had to change or think about himself, he has never done that and his personality is absolutely set in stone. You see barristers like that as well, they are freelance and they come to court and you hear people ‘oh here he is now this is fantastic’ and they make fortunes of money and they live in a bubble. They retire at the age of 70 and they are as undeveloped in the inner life as when they were 18. If you’ve got ________?_______, it’s a bit of fun, it’s showbiz and all of that. You know people laugh at the guy, I think it’s pathetic. I must say in general I think it’s pathetic.”


    He does not know ____?_______ personally. “I can see what his behaviours are, his public behaviours, he reacts to confrontation: ‘well I’ll punch you in the face’. His towering rages, the way be behaves, the constant craving for publicity. I mean the guy would walk over crushed glass to get to him. I see loads of people like him, loads of people like him coming through the court service all the time. They get counselling, they get all sorts of help. With ____?____ it is different and in a way what has happened is in truth, because he was a great footballer and all of that - he has just become a figure of fun.

    “People say ‘ah that’s fantastic did you see what he did yesterday’ and everyone plays up to it and he has to act the clown when he is in press conferences etc because he is completely unreconstructed.

    “I must say I feel sorry for the fellah. Maybe that’s wrong, maybe he doesn’t feel in the slightest bit troubled, maybe it’s an act. Maybe all that volcanic stuff that stems around that is just an act.

    “But it seems to me it’s a guy with serious inner turmoil.”
     
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  2. DMD

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    Roy Keane?
     
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  3. Happy Tiger

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    Nick Barmby?
     
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  4. Quill

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    Roy Keane.
     
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  5. Sir Cheshire Ben

    Sir Cheshire Ben Well-Known Member

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    I'm off for Keane too.
     
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  6. Amin Arrears

    Amin Arrears Well-Known Member

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    Steve Bruce
     
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  7. Chilton's Hundreds

    Chilton's Hundreds Well-Known Member

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    he has to act the clown

    think that rules out Roy Keane.

    Paolo di Canio I reckon
     
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  8. Barchullona

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    Jimmy Bullard.
     
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    Chilton's Hundreds Well-Known Member

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    I thought that at one point but the 'rage' and volcanic' descriptions don't match Bullard's personality.
     
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  11. WhittlingStick

    WhittlingStick Well-Known Member

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    It almost fits Roy Keane , but much of it is his opposite . . . Jimmathy Bullard :/
     
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  12. Anal Frank Fingers

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    Joey Barton.

    Never mind. He's still playing.
     
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  13. tigerincanada

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    Brilliant player, has rages, often in the media as a result of confrontation, two books in which he boasts about his toughness and slags off contempories combined with lack of success and quitting as a manager (twice) ... it has to be Roy Keane.
     
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    vinnie jones?

    the writer is right though - some never grow up or develop because the environment they find themselves in doesn't require it.
     
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  15. Barchullona

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    I admit I was going by the playing the fool bit. That could be Paul Gascgoine.
     
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    Roy Keane or an angry Gazza
     
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  18. The FRENCH TICKLER

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    My 10p is on Roy Keane.
     
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  19. Ullofaman

    Ullofaman Well-Known Member

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    Well done to all who contributed - Roy Keane is the correct answer.
     
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